The Joyful Mom Podcast
I’m Megan Hillukka, a mother to a large family, a wife, business owner, homeschooling mom, and this podcast shows you how to find joy in motherhood, even when it’s busy, overwhelming, and chaotic, so that you can have peace, energy, and be the mom you thought you would be. We’ll talk about mental health, business, homemaking, marriage, raising kids, and more, all the ups and downs that a mother might experience in her life as she raises her family. This is the Joyful Mom Podcast.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 349
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
128: Changing Your Thoughts From the Inside
If you like this podcast, and found it helpful, I want to invite you come check out Grieving Moms Haven, my monthly community for Grieving moms, where you can learn positive co…
127: Letting Go of the Fight
If you like this podcast, and found it helpful, I want to invite you come check out Grieving Moms Haven, my monthly community for Grieving moms, where you can learn positive co…
126: Teaching Others About Grief (Part 3)
Full Episode Show Notes Here
If you like this podcast, and found it helpful, I want to invite you come check out Grieving Moms Haven, my monthly community for Grieving moms, whe…
125: Teaching Others About Grief (Part 2)
Find the full show notes here
If you like this podcast, and found it helpful, I want to invite you come check out Grieving Moms Haven, my monthly community for Grieving moms, wh…
124: Teaching Others About Grief (Part 1)
You can find the show notes to this podcast HERE
If you like this podcast, and found it helpful, I want to invite you come check out Grieving Moms Haven, my monthly community fo…
123 Walking into a New Year
So- here’s to hoping 2022 can be a year of gentleness on your heart, and a time where you can hold compassion, gentleness, and love for yourself as you are walking the hardest …
122: The Power of AND
Episode Pointers :
- Using the word AND, helps expand your energy, awareness, and opens up things for your brain to register in a way that’s pretty amazing.
- We don’t have to live i…
121: When Wishes Change with Tricia Roos
Episode Pointers:
- You know that the person is dying, but you do everything to make the situation comfortable. You provide until the end of life.
- Each one of our stories is so per…
120: 3 Ideas to Support You Through the Holidays
Holiday season is a time for happiness and making good memories with your loved ones.
How can a grieving mom experience true happiness if she is still having intense pain and lo…
119: How Much Do You Judge Yourself In Your Grief?
Episode Pointers:
- Judgment is anytime you think you should be doing better, differently, or than you are.
- This quadruples the pain and takes precious energy away from just griev…
118: Have You Become Comfortable?
Episode Pointers:
- When grief first comes into your world, it’s so foreign. The grief wave of emotion almost feels too big to bear.
- But as time goes on, and this cloud of sadness …
117: Mental Health and Addiction with Aaron Huey
Disclaimer: This episode talks about mental health, addiction, sexual assault and suicide.
Episode Pointers:
- Take care of yourself. Self-care is all you can truly model for your …
116 : Building Your Grief Toolbox
Episode Pointers:
- When grief first comes to you, you might have a few tools in your toolbox. It may be ways you have used to cope in the past or things you’ve used to get throu…
115: We are Moving in a School Bus
Episode Pointers:
- When Aria died, one of the biggest things I learned was that death can happen at any moment. In one instant, someone you love can be gone.
- I’ve wanted to learn …
114: Grief and Anxiety
Episode Pointers :
- Anxiety is not a problem.
- The more you resist anxiety, the more intense it gets.
- Having anxiety is your brain’s way of protecting you.
- Thought Induced Anxiety is…
113: Enneagram and Grief With Callie Ammons
Episode Pointers:
- Enneagram is a lens and the way that we look at the world and it's helping us understand what is going on internally
- In Enneagram, there are 9 different persona…
112: Reaching For Gratitude
Episode Pointers:
- Imagine that gratitude is like practicing a muscle. It’s like practicing gratitude in your body.
- Just because you are grieving doesn't mean you can't practice …
111: Finding What You Need Inside of You
Episode Pointers:
- You know what you need inside of you already. Maybe you just haven’t given yourself permission to listen to yourself, or you haven’t even allowed space for t…
110: Triggers are your Teachers
Episode Pointers:
- It’s our natural instinct to run from triggers. We often see them as a bad thing.
- The thing I believe about triggers, is that it’s your body’s way of letting y…
109: Meeting Anxiety Where It’s At With Sandra Hoye
Note : This episode is a Facebook Live Recording on July 20, 2021.
Click here to watch the recording: https://fb.watch/v/3IRqQ5muo/
In today’s episode, Sandra shares her grievin…